Daniel Gilfillan
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Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoModern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoGood day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]
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Sophie Christman deposited Foreword in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA STEAM-informed humanities’ essay describing the theoretical concept of “ecophobia”-a notion put forward in Simon Estok’s theoretical text The Ecophobia Hypothesis (Routledge 2018) that describes the systemic human fear of nature.
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Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more] -
Sophie Christman deposited “I Have a Dream”: Erasing American Ecophobia * in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoConsidering the institutionalized forms of ecophobia in the United States, is it necessary to enact a Civil Rights of Nature? I claim that conceptually linking the Constitutional protections enabled by the American civil rights movement to an emerging civil rights of nature would enable the rapid transition away from ecophobic attitudes toward…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “Why Reasonable Children Don’t Think that Nutcracker is Alive or that the Mouse King is Real” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoZunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic CfP ACLA seminar “Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance” in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoFor distribution among scholars in: Comparative Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Communications, Spanish/Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities.
Ana Luengo (San Francisco State U) and Alberto Ribas (Santa Clara University) are organizing a seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal,…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoMcDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]
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